Waymo opens fifth-generation autonomous rides to San Francisco testers
Waymo opened applications for its San Francisco Trusted Tester program, allowing selected public riders to hail fifth-generation Waymo Driver vehicles with an autonomous specialist onboard.
TOWARD DOOM35confidence 93/100
Why it moved the index
The program moved a new generation of driving automation into public passenger use in a complex city, expanding consequential real-world deployment. Onboard specialists, selection controls, and research-program status constrain magnitude.
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Assessment history
- R1Toward 35 · confidence 93
New August 2021 public autonomous-ride deployment absent from the durable corpus; the fifth-generation system is not conflated with the durable fourth-generation model.
12 Aug 2026